if its a fat filesystem I got the tools you need...email me back quick! gotta head to work ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 3:16 PM Subject: scanning physical disk to retrieve file
> > Agh. this was low priority, and just went really high . . . > > I almost managed an "rm -r *~" to get rid of the backup files from > emacs and the like, but [*insert tear here*] the 8 key on my laptop is > dodgy, meaning I got ~ itself. > > As usual, there was a single important file on the disk--a half-written > journal article on the economics of free software. > > I've already followed the pages on file recovery, and haven't managed > to find that file (though I found a couple of interesting ones I'd > forgotten about :) > > It's a 340mb disk, with 340 devoted to drdos (hey, I can't go to > conventions without master of orion, can I? :), and a 40 meg swap. > There's 20 megs of ram, so I can use that for workspace instead. > > How do I read the raw device (ideally in 40m chunks of the unused > space?) so that I can search my way through it for words & phrases? > > And of course, I need to hit the road tomorrow at 2:30 (that which > suddenly made this urgent), and need to use the laptop while I'm gone. > I"ll have to sacrifice this paper and start from scratch if I can't > work this out by then . . . > > hawk > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
